Here are a few resources to help you get the new year off to a great start. What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done. Of course I’ll be recommending my book here! The beginning of the year is a good time to refine your mission, vision, roles and goals. What’s […]
The End of Our Exploring: A Book About Questioning and the Confidence of Faith
My friend Matthew Lee Anderson started his latest book after I started mine and it has released well before mine. Way to go, Matt! Matt is the lead writer at the very helpful blog Mere Orthodoxy. It is an absolute joy to read his writing; as I’ve said before, I think he is one of […]
Using Your Saturdays Well and Two Other Excellent Posts
Chris Misiano organizes and oversees on-campus events at Liberty university and, on the side, has been my assistant for the last year-and-a-half. I am amazed at his productivity and ability to stay on top of things. He is also an incredible writer. Here are three very helpful articles that he has recently produced that I […]
Keeping an Eye on the Backward Clock: How Getting Things Done Relates to the Biblical Call for Holiness
Scott Belsky, in Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality: The notion of the backward clock is simple: if you were told the exact year, day, and time that your life would end, would you manage your time and energy any differently? Even if that date were seventy-three years, twelve days, two […]
Five More Books I'm Looking Forward To: Leadership, Vocation, Global Poverty, Theological Education, Willpower
Going through my inbox, here are 5 more books I’ve just bought or been sent that I’m looking forward to: 1.Fast Living: How the Church Will End Extreme Poverty I believe along with Scott Todd that we can end extreme poverty in our generation. Further, I think there is firm biblical basis in Deuteronomy 15 […]
3 Things to Remember When Critiquing Someone's Theology
Justin Taylor: Critique — done well — is a gift to the one being criticized. We should welcome the opportunity to have our thinking corrected and clarified. We see through a glass dimly, and God has gifted the church with teachers who often see things more clearly than we do at present. In God’s providence […]
Is it Biblical to Choose a Job You Love? An Example
Yesterday I argued from the principles in 1 Corinthians 7:39-40 that our own happiness is a legitimate consideration in making major life decisions. This is how Paul sees the choice to marry, and it seems that the same principle carries through to other areas of freedom, such as what job to choose. Today I wanted […]
What is the Purpose of College for a Christian?
JP Moreland in Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul: How, then, should this [positive] attitude toward extrabiblical intellectual training inform parents and youth groups when they prepare Christian teenagers to go to college and tell teens why college is important? According to various studies, […]
John Piper Interviews Rick Warren on Doctrine — And Thoughts on the Significance of Their Relationship
The video of John Piper interviewing Rick Warren is now online. Here’s some of what John Piper had to say about it at the Desiring God blog: The nature of the interview is mainly doctrinal. I read Rick’s The Purpose Driven Life with great care. I brought 20 pages of quotes and questions to the […]
Updating Edward's Teaching on Heavenly Rewards
Recently I’ve been thinking a bit more about Edwards teaching on heavenly rewards. Briefly, Edwards teaches, as the Bible seems to (Luke 19:13-19; 2 Corinthians 4:17-18; Ephesians 6:8), that there are degrees of rewards in the new heavens and new earth. But this will not be the cause of any unhappiness, for it doesn’t mean […]